ROBOTANISTS' first single "Wait a Minute Here" debuted on KCRW's legendary show "Morning Becomes Eclectic" recently, and has rocketed into the Los Angeles area station's TOP 20 in ITS FIRST WEEK ON AIR, passing up singles by Noisettes, Regina Spektor, Wilco, Bat for Lashes, Vampire Weekend/Ra Ra Riot side project, DISCOVERY and many more in the week's TOP 50!
KCRW TOP 20 FOR THE WEEK OF 08/10/2009:
1 LITTLE DRAGON == Machine Dreams >> [Peacefrog]
2 FAT FREDDY'S DROP == Dr Boondigga & The Big Bw >> [Drop]
3 QUANTIC & HIS COMBO BARBARO == Tradition In Transition >> [Tru Thoughts]
4 NOVALIMA == Coba Coba - Remixed >> [Cumbancha]
5 24-CARAT BLACK == Gone - The Promises Of Yesterday >> [Numero Group]
6 FELIX DA HOUSECAT == He Was King >> [Nettwerk]
7 FINK == Sort Of Revolution >> [Ninja Tune]
8 MAJOR LAZER == Guns Don't Kill People Lazers Do >> [Downtown]
9 GRIZZLY BEAR == Veckatimest >> [Warp Music]
10 ZERO 7 == Yeah Ghost - Sampler >> [Atlantic]
11 JEREMY SOLE - COMPILATION == Jeremy Sole's Picks - Vol 1 >> [Jeremy Sole]
12 FLAMING LIPS == Embryonic Ep >> [Warner Bros.]
13 JULIAN PLENTI == Is Skyscraper >> [Matador]
14 YACHT == See Mystery Lights >> [Dfa]
15 DO == Mouthful >> [Get Down]
16 VERY BEST == Very Best >> [Advance]
17 OM COMPILATOIN == Om 15 >> [Om]
18 CLARK == Totems Flare >> [Warp]
19 ROBOTANISTS == Close Down The Woods >> [Overhead]
20 DISCOVERY == Lp >> [Xl]
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Also charting in the top 50...
21 GENERATIONALS == Con Law >> [Park The Van]
22 BUDOS BAND == Budos Band Ep >> [Daptone]
23 HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE == Hypnotic Brass Ensemble >> [Honest Jons]
24 EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS == Up From Below >> [Vagrant]
25 MOS DEF == Ecstatic >> [Downtown]
26 WILCO == Wilco >> [Nonesuch]
27 K'NAAN == Troubadour >> [A&m/octone]
28 MAYER HAWTHORNE == Strange Arrangement >> [Stones Throw]
29 AMANDA BLANK == I Love You >> [Downtown]
30 JACK PENATE == Everything Is New >> [Xl]
31 MONSTERS OF FOLK == Monsters Of Folk - Sampler >> [Shangri-la]
32 IMOGEN HEAP == Ellipse >> [Epic]
33 MICHAEL JACKSON == Stripped Mixes >> [Motown]
34 CHIN CHIN == Remix Ep >> [Definitive Jux]
35 HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTION == Through The Devil Softly >> [Nettwerk]
36 FRUIT BATS == Ruminant Band >> [Sub Pop]
37 JOE HENRY == Blood From Stars >> [Anti]
38 WEST INDIAN GIRL == We Believe >> [Self Release]
39 MAXWELL == Blacksummers'night >> [Columbia]
40 SHUTA HASUNUMA == Pop Ooga Plus >> [Western Vinyl]
41 REGINA SPEKTOR == Far >> [Sire]
42 NICOLA CONTE == Rituals >> [Emarcy]
43 DATAROCK == Red >> [Nettwerk]
44 NOISETTES == Wild Young Hearts >> [Mercury]
45 MIIKE SNOW == Miike Snow >> [Downtown]
46 BAT FOR LASHES == Two Suns >> [Astralwerks]
47 FEVER RAY == Fever Ray >> [Mute]
48 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE == Lungs >> [Universal Island]
49 BOMBAY DUB ORCHESTRA == 3 Cities In Dub >> [Six Degrees Records]
50 ATLAS SOUND == Logos - Sampler >> [Kranky]
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"WAIT A MINUTE HERE" was also added at these stations this week:
WCHR – 105.7 FM – Ocean, NJWXPK – 101.7 FM – White Plains, NY
WFNX – 101.7 FM – Boston, MA / 92.1 FM – New Hampshire
Yahoo! Music – USA
